The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: First-graders and up.

What you should know: Set in the future, this is an animated story about a scientist who creates Astro Boy to replace the son, Toby, who has died. He has Toby's memories, plus super powers.

Language: A little bit of menacing talk but certainly nothing obscene or profane.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: Toby dies in an accident although that is handled as delicately as possible. It's disturbing when his robotic replacement, Astro Boy, is rejected by his father. Lots of action-fueled peril and a girl separated from her parents feels abandoned, but that ends happily.

Drug or alcohol use: None.

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Tweens and older.

What you should know: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. In summer 1937, she set off on a flight around the world that ended in tragedy. Richard Gere plays her husband, publisher George P. Putnam, and Ewan McGregor is her lover, pilot Gene Vidal.

Language: A couple of uses of profanity and a few mild four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: An unmarried couple kiss and it's obvious they later spent the night together. A woman and man, married to others, kiss passionately and references are made to their affair.

Violence/scary situations: A plane is caught in a lightning-charged thunderstorm, a takeoff attempt ends in an accident and, most disturbing of all, is the prelude to the disappearance of Earhart and her navigator.

Drug or alcohol use: Adults are shown drinking or with glasses of champagne, beer and stronger alcohol.

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